Looking at the shrewd and sturdy man in front of him, Hou Guoxing felt a burst of excitement in his heart. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIf the most regrets of later generations for the Ming Dynasty are, in addition to the death of the country in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it may be the sea ban.

Now that God has sent him a weather forecast, if he doesn't accept it, and start his own navigation, Hou Guoxing feels that he will definitely be punished by God.

Thinking of this, Hou Guoxing whispered tentatively:

"I don't know why my brother came to this Jingshi Institute?"

Hearing Hou Guoxing ask, this Zheng Yiguan blushed and said:

"Grass... The grass people were forced by their livelihood to come to this capital to eat, and they never thought about it......"

It turned out that this Zheng Yiguan was born in a small official family in Shijing, Nan'an, Fujian, and he didn't like to study when he was young, so he was good at fist and foot kung fu, and went to sea by boat.

In desperation, he fled to Jingshi, hoping to find a future. But now that it's been about half a month, I still don't have a clue.

Now I don't even dare to stay with the money on my body, and these days I am looking for some broken temples and other places in the surrounding area. I came to the old man early in the morning and drank a few bowls of tofu brain to satisfy my hunger first.

Of course, all of this was said by Zheng Yiguan himself, as for whether what he said was true, Hou Guoxing didn't want to care, anyway, what he needed was this weather forecast.

Thinking of this, Hou Guoxing spoke again:

Brother Zheng, you don't have a place to go now, why don't you stay in this inn with me for a few days, now that my house is destroyed, there is nowhere to go......

Hou Guoxing carefully wooed him, after the last time Wang Wenyan failed, Hou Guoxing did not have any confidence in his domineering spirit, and he was afraid that after he opened his mouth, he would let him refuse, so he was cautious and tentative.

Hearing Hou Guoxing's invitation, Zheng Yiguan was stunned, this Hou Guoxing is now a man of the hour in Beijing, not long after he came to Beijing, he heard about Hou Guoxing, a loyal minister through the ages. I also met the scholars who went to the Hou Mansion to make trouble.

To be honest, if it weren't for the Shizi Parade, this Zheng Yiguan might not even have the money to drink tofu brain. On that day, he saw the scholars smashing and looting along the road, and he was penniless, so he simply blended into the parade and followed the scholars for a while. Although his face is too thin, he only followed behind and got a little broken silver, but he could last a few days.

But having said that, at that time, Zheng Yiguan had the same opinion as everyone in the whole Beijing Division, thinking that this Hou Guoxing would definitely die, but he didn't expect that one night, this Hou Guoxing actually turned his hands over and turned the situation around. Even the emperor almost slaughtered the Jingshi Shizi for him.

Now seeing that this man is so polite to himself, he is a little flattered for a while. Although he was puzzled, he was now penniless and had no place to go. I had no choice but to give up my hand and say:

"Thank you so much, brother!" This Zheng Yiguan is a second person, and seeing that Hou Guoxing has always been a brother, he also changed his name.

Soon, Hou Guoxing took Zheng Yiguan to the inn, and after letting the store arrange the guest room, he made a few side dishes, and the two began to drink:

"Come, big brother, little brother respects you!"

The two are of similar age, and they quickly became familiar with each other, and after the age, this Zheng Yiguan is now seventeen years old, and he is one year younger than Hou Guoxing.

"Brother, you just said you went to sea?" Hou Guoxing asked after a toast.

Zheng Yiguan swallowed the muscles in his mouth hard, drank another glass of wine, and said without caring about the greasy mouth:

"Yes, big brother, we have a lot of mountains over there, and we can't support a few people, so everyone is risking losing their heads and going out to get a few money......

After the Ming Dynasty to Taizong Zhu Di, the sea ban began for up to 200 years, although there were several intermittent sea openings in the middle, but it was also abolished halfway, especially during the Jiaqing period, after the Wokou Rebellion, in order to prevent banditry, the Ming Dynasty was even stricter on the sea ban.

However, with the late Jiaqing period to the present, the taxes of the Ming Dynasty have become increasingly heavy, and the farmers who are difficult to make ends meet have no choice but to take risks. In addition, the local wealthy families colluded with the bureaucrats to go to sea without permission, and as a result, the trend of smuggling became more and more popular.

This Zheng Yiguan, although his family background is okay, he can't help but have a stupid heart, and he can be regarded as having gone to sea a few times.

Listening to Zheng Yiguan's words, Hou Guoxing opened his mouth and asked:

"I don't know what the general cargo is about? What is the profit? ”

Zheng Yiguan thought about it and said:

At present, our main destination is to Japan, and the goods are mainly porcelain, silk and tea, as well as rouge. Fan paint these gadgets. Generally speaking, the minimum profit of a shipload of goods is more than ten accompaniments, and after returning to the voyage, after bringing back from there, Sumu, pepper, "these I don't have in the Ming Dynasty, the profit of a trip is very considerable."

"No silver?" Hou Guoxing instinctively asked. Later generations will know about Japan's Silver Mountain.

Hearing Hou Guoxing ask, Zheng Yiguan smiled and said:

Big brother, do you know that Japanese silver is cheap? But what is the difference in the price of silver compared to the trade by sea.......

Nowadays, the silver price of Daming and the silver price of Japan are about three escorts, but compared with the profits of maritime merchants who are more than ten escorts, this profit is really not eye-catching.

Hearing what Zheng Yiguan said, Hou Guoxing sighed in his heart, feeling that going to sea to trade is a business that is faster than picking up money directly, I really don't understand if the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty have broken their brains and actually proposed a sea ban.

Just when Hou Guoxing sighed with emotion, Zheng Yiguan opened his mouth and sighed:

But now this business is not as good as before, and now the power of the red-haired ghost on the side of Haojing Ao is getting bigger and bigger, and a lot of trade ......

Zheng Yiguan explained to Hou Guoxing the situation in Fujian today, generally speaking, the Portuguese on the side of Macau (Hao Jing Macao) have firmly occupied their foothold, and the Spaniards, who annexed the Portuguese, have of course followed. The Dutch also roamed the seas of Southeast Asia, and even the British began to show traces.

Those red-haired ghost cannons are strong, China's lucky ships are not opponents at all, and the maritime merchants who went to sea suffered heavy losses for a while, and slowly began to look at the faces of the red-haired ghosts, and gave corresponding rewards for safety.

The Age of Discovery? Hou Guoxing clenched his fists tightly, remembering the history of later generations, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, continued to close the country, China entered hundreds of years of decline, and then let these red-haired ghosts knock on the door of the country, the war was raging, the name was boring, and even fell into the title of the sick man of East Asia.

Until the era in which he lived, he could barely stand up straight. Of course, many times you have to look at people's faces.

"Yiguan, since you have this talent, why don't you choose to go to sea and come to this Jingshi, you must know that this Jingshi can't give full play to your strengths." Hou Guoxing asked.

"This ...... This one...... My father is a relatively old-fashioned person, and he values his small official position more than his life, and he is afraid that he will throw away his job if I go to sea. Zheng Yiguan replied with a blushing face.

"Yiguan, I treat you as a brother, and I cherish you as a talent, if you tell the truth, I can help you. But if you still want to deceive me, then it's all over. ”

Since Hou Guoxing has made up his mind to carry out his own Age of Discovery, of course, he must find out the details.

After speaking, Zheng Yiguan, who looked at the red-faced Zheng Yiguan quietly, spoke again:

"Since you have been in Beijing for a few days, you should have heard that I was awarded the title of Jinyi Wei Thousand Households, and there shouldn't be many things that the Ming Dynasty can hide from Jinyiwei!"

Looking at Hou Guoxing's silent face, Zheng Yiguan blushed and gritted his teeth and said:

"Big brother, the brother didn't mean to hide it, but it was twists and turns, really... It's really shameless to mention. ”

After speaking, he looked at Hou Guoxing, who did not express it, and simply began with a heart:

"My father has a new concubine, and she looks beautiful......"

Listening to Zheng Yiguan, whose face was flushed, talking about his past, Hou Guoxing was also stunned for a while, and he couldn't close it for a long time.

This Zheng Yiguan is an old boy in the words of later generations, his family conditions are not bad, and he is handsome, and studying with peace of mind is definitely the pillar of the future of the Ming Dynasty.

But Zheng Yiguan just didn't follow the path designed by his father, and led his two younger brothers and a group of gangsters to cause trouble outside. (Please refer to the image of Chan Ho-nam in "Crazy Boy")

Such a child is placed in modern times, and it is estimated that the parents will be half angry. In the era of the Ming Dynasty, of course, it is even more unpleasant.

His father hated iron and steel, and he was served with a stick, and he was beaten to death every time, and his mother was more honest, and she was old and yellow, and she was not liked by her father, so she didn't even have the courage to persuade him.

It was a beautiful concubine newly married by his father, and every time Zheng Yiguan was beaten, he came to persuade him. When he opened his mouth, he let Zheng Yiguan go.

Of course, Zheng Yiguan, who is sixteen or seventeen years old, will not succumb to the obscene power of the stick at this age of turmoil. Those who should sneak out to sea still go to sea, and those who should fight still fight.

The result is naturally that his father should be beaten in the same way. This little mother (father's concubine) also faithfully performed her duties, after the child was beaten, of course, she had to rub medicine or something, and then comforted and comforted her. Over time, the mother and son fell in love.

Finally on a stormy night, after Zheng Yiguan let his father beat him again, the little mother wiped the scars on the root of Hou Guoxing's thighs with tears in her eyes, complaining about why the master had such a heavy hand. A look of deep affection for licking calves.

Finally, a few thunderbolts fell in the sky, and the little mother couldn't stand the fright and got into her son's bad.

This thing, there are two if there is one, one is young, and the other is dissatisfied.

Finally, on a dark night, there was a storm outside, lightning and thunder, and thunder and fire in the house. Two youthful bodies, rubbing and comforting each other.

Then the father, who had just finished beating his son, suddenly felt a little too bad in his heart, and decided to come back to comfort and comfort, and then there was no more......

The father was so angry that he fainted to the ground, and when he woke up, he was about to cut his son with a knife. Later, he sent a letter to Zheng Yiguan's uncle, who was doing business in Macau, and if he dared to take Zheng Yiguan in, he would divorce Zheng Yiguan's mother.

Later, after Zheng Yiguan received the news from his mother, he was sure that he had no hope of going to sea, so he could only grit his teeth and flee to Beijing in the hope of trying his luck.

I hope that after getting ahead, I will go back and give this old guy a long face. If you don't get it right, you'll be fooled.

Zheng Yiguan looked at Hou Guoxing's jaw that was about to fall, his face turned even redder, and he sighed and said:

"Brother has a loss of character, don't dare to disturb Brother Hou!"

"Wait!" Hearing the weather forecast in front of him to leave, Hou Guoxing hurriedly reached out and grabbed Zheng Yiguan.